[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 108 (Tuesday, August 4, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H7008]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          MANAGED CARE REFORM

  (Mr. GEJDENSON asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GEJDENSON. Mr. Speaker, just in case there are any questions left 
about what is wrong with health care in America and the failure of the 
Republican proposal in this House, my family has had another 
opportunity to see America's present health care system up close and 
personal.
  My brother, who runs the dairy farm that we live on, woke up one 
morning with the right side of his face paralyzed from blind tick 
palsy. He had no sensation on the right side of his face. ``Silly 
brother,'' Ike thought, ``this was serious.'' So he went to the 
emergency room. But not his insurance company. They rejected the claim.
  Americans are being injured and harassed by the present system. We 
need to applaud President Clinton for his efforts to move health care 
forward and let doctors and hospitals make decisions about health care 
and not the profits of the managed care companies.

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